Dogs and cats are very different (not even from the same family/genus/species.) You can't breed things that are so very different -- it'd be like
trying to tell someone that you built a Genuine Volkswagen Beetle out of Humvee parts.

My dogs are notorious for getting busy with animate and inanimate objects;like my kids stuffed animals, my mother-in-laws leg and yes even some
unsuspecting cat now and then , but come on, does any one really believe that this is true?

This reminds me of this video on YouTube.com in which a cat who had recently lost some of her
kittens adopted the puppies of a dog who showed no interest in nursing them. That's the most plausible scenario in this case as well, in all
likelihood. That said, who knows? I genuinely believe anything is possible lol.

I can't believe this even made headlines. For one thing, as has already been mentioned, a cat/dog hybrid is impossible--not without some
serious gene alteration, for which we haven't the technology as of yet. For another, the cat couldn't have carried those puppies, since
they're as big as she is. If she tried to birth even one of those, it would've torn her apart.

Originally posted by spacedoubt
Would a cat be a viable surrogate for implanted dog embryos?

I'm not saying this is the case here. But Would it be possible for a cat to give birth to
a litter of pups this way? Instead of crossbreeding?

Doubtful. First off, a fertilized dog embryo has a different signature than a cat embryo. If implanted into the cat, it's likely that the immune
system of the cat would attack the embryo, destroying it. It's the same concept of transplanting organs from one patient to another. Transplant
patients have to take immunosuppressants so that their body doesn't attack the foreign tissue.

Secondly, the majority of puppies are about twice the size of your average kitten, therefore the size alone would quite possibly kill the mother.
Assuming that she doesn't die carrying them, there would surely be complications with the birth (pups wouldn't fit through a cat's birth canal).

It is amazing to me that the News Media would even print stories as retarded as this. Some poor uneducated woman makes a wild claim and the story is
transmitted around the world. Unbelievable. I guess it just goes to show how gullible some people are.

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